Join us for an Ockham Lecture presented in conjunction with In the image of the city.

For this lecture, international guest Millie Cattlin of These Are The Projects We Do Together joins us from Naarm Melbourne to speak to their expansive practice.

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Led by Millie Cattlin and Joseph Norster, These Are The Projects We Do Together has earned a reputation working predominantly with ‘problematic’ sites. Through architecture, design, embedded education, maintenance, caretaking, operations, creative program and open access, the practice seeks to reposition these ‘problematic’ sites as crucial, creative and socially inclusive spaces and communities.

Currently working across two project-sites – Balam Balam Place is a purpose‑built creative and community precinct with space for community groups to meet and gather, and for arts practices to develop new work in affordable and flexible settings. The Quarry is a sandstone quarry in Victoria’s Otway Ranges, undergoing rehabilitation and purchased by the practice as a large-scale multi-generational research, art, design and education site.

These Are The Projects We Do Together operates a ‘projects-in-projects’ model, where major projects accommodate and foster a wide range of smaller collaborative projects that contribute to the health and vitality of the larger project-ecosystem. These smaller projects are often self-initiated, have public outcomes and involve bringing together industry, creative practitioners and student groups.

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The Ockham Lecture series is an annual programme of lectures and panel discussions across different themes that critically engage with craft, design and architecture. This programme is supported by Objectspace's Lead Partner Ockham Residential.

This event is included in the programme for the 2026 Aotearoa Festival of Architecture.